Tag: linkedin

I’ve had a ton of people endorsing me for stuff on my LinkedIn profile. Skills is potentially a killer feature, where people I’ve worked with professionally are the ones who are confirming the strengths I’m attempting to market.

However, one thing that is killing me is WordPress — or should I say “WordPress” (with a “lower-case p dangit“).

My issue is that friends/colleagues have been endorsing me more in “WordPress” than “WordPress”. Unfortunately, for someone who markets himself on LinkedIn as a WordPress expert, this makes me look like an idiot to true WordPressers. Here’s a screenshot of my LinkedIn profile:

I looked to LinkedIn’s support documentation for relief — and had my mellow harshed:

Question: I have duplicate skills on my profile. Can I merge them?

Answer: Unfortunately, skills cannot be merged. If you have duplicate skills on your profile, we suggest one of the two following options:

Delete the skill with the least amount of endorsements. Unfortunately, the endorsements will be deleted as well. They cannot be transferred over to the remaining skill at this time.

Keep both skills on your profile if you do not want to lose any endorsements.

So the answer is continue using the mis-spelled skill and dishonor the proper way to spell WordPress. Or, delete it and look like I don’t know shit about WordPress. LinkedIn needs to provide some method for correcting grammatical issues such as this.

Compounding this pain-in-the-arse is WordPress core’s interference with recording this argument — specifically, its function that auto-capitalizes the middle “P”. Just to properly present my rant, I had to install a plugin or consider customizing my theme.

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